Sciencetext Tips & Tricks

US TV in RoW with VPN

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

always-vpnHotspot Shield, which I’ve mentioned here several times in the past is a virtual private network that spoofs your internet connection so that your computer appears to be accessing sites from a US address. This means that you could use it…

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Ten Reasons to Download Youtube Videos

September 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

download youtube logoI recently explained how to download Youtube videos. It never occurred to me that anyone would need an explanation as to why you would want to. But, the first comment in from fellow blogger Ari Herzog asked the obvious question -…

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Download Youtube Videos

September 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

download youtube logoWant a quick and easy way to save Youtube videos to your hard drive? Then if you’re running Greasemonkey in the Firefox browser you can get it here by installing the Youtube Download script.

This Greasemonkey scripts adds a somple download button to…

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Big Mouth Video

May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Big mouth singersMy singing group, Big Mouth, recently recorded an audition video for a TV competition and I decided to make a backup, edit it, and upload it to Youtube/Google Videos to share with the other members of the band. Now, aside…

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Top Posts on Video

November 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Popularity contest

One of the nice “extras” on Significant Figures is a plugin that lets you see what other visitors are reading the most. You can get to the top posts list by following the, well, Top Posts link in the menu bar.…

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